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by belorn 3y ago
During energy discussions here on HN, a common topic is accident insurance. The general principle is that a power plant should have insurance that cover any and all forms of accidents, covering any costs that such accidents may have on peop
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by belorn 3y ago
If all this kind of problems are cause by a social club that has no other benefits than being a social club, then there is an obvious solution. Remove it from the education system and turn it into a fraternal order, like Freemasons and Od
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by belorn 3y ago
The main division of Tutsi/Hutu was primarily done by Europeans, and the criteria was based on "those who owned cattle became known as the Tutsi and those who did not own cattle became known as the Hutu", and taller persons w
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by belorn 3y ago
Poland has fairly less wealth than Germany. Is it fair that Germany has so much wealth today when the countries they attacked do not? The affirmative action discussed here are not about survivors of slavery. They are descendants and non-des
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by belorn 3y ago
The West and east Germany split was a form of reparations, including conceding and dismantling of the German industry and railroad system. The key however is that such reparations are not being continued, nor are they repaying the full cost
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by belorn 3y ago
Germany went through a similar phase after 1945 with a lot of guilt and reparations towards fixing all the problem cause during the war. It was very noticeable in behavior and attitude, through around 2000s it seems that the past is being p
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by belorn 3y ago
The official reason given by the company is that carbon fiber allowed the submersibles to be positive buoyant. This in turn allowed them to use electromagnets to hold onto ballast, and in the case of a failure the submersibles would loose i
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by belorn 3y ago
All those issues has equality issues that impacts both genders, and solutions that would benefit both men and women generally ignored. Roe vs Wade could be changed into a human rights discussion where every person has a right to demand cons
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by belorn 3y ago
> But just because testosterone makes you more aggresive, and more competitive does not mean women are not, or can not be, competitive or ambitious. People always jump to biology when there isn't much to support a cultural observati
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by belorn 3y ago
There does not exist a single pejorative or derogatory term which inherently was negative and disrespectful to a demographic. It is always the case that a word get used in a way that turns the word into a pejorative or derogatory term. toxi
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by belorn 3y ago
It wasn't that many years ago people did word bubble (frequencies) of reddit subreddits, and both Feminist and Mens Rights Activists subs was very similar. The most common word in the Feminist one was "Men", and the most comm
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by belorn 3y ago
A fun experiment is to take a 4k video and convert it to 144p, and then use an AI upscale back to 4k. The result is quite odd, but still very much recognizable of the original video, but with a lot of artifacts and hallucinations. In some w
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by belorn 3y ago
It all depend on what analogies we use. If we see the algorithmic compression to be similar to converting a 4k video to a lower resolution, the legal system seems to view it as a copy despite it being a lossy compression. If we take the inp
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by belorn 3y ago
Are you saying that American Heart Association, NHS UK, British Dietetic Association and WHO recommendations are wrong because people can't be bothered to change their diets. One can not have their cake and eat it too. Either we defer
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by belorn 3y ago
The American Heart Association recommends eating 2 servings of fish (particularly fatty fish) per week. - American Heart Association A healthy, balanced diet should include at least 2 portions of fish a week, including 1 of oily fish. - NHS
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by belorn 3y ago
If we are going to impose a cultural change on the world population, adding sea weed and shellfish would be better from an ecological perspective with lower footprint. Rather than using 75% of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers, aqua fa
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by belorn 3y ago
The carbon fibre is interesting angle because I have seen in the last 5-10 years a change in fire fighters, under water rescue services and military to go from using steel cylinders for breathing gas (300 bar) to a composite of aluminum and
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by belorn 3y ago
How many boats are sent international if a fishing boat outside Thailand or Norway don't return home? What if a old transport ship goes missing in a storm? Occasionally we can see here on HN stories about lost sailors being rescued aft
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by belorn 3y ago
I would not read too much into it. Media coverage in this context is mostly about how sensentional and novel the news is. People get lost at sea all the time, in particularly in fishing and shipping industry. The average person is very simi
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by belorn 3y ago
In the general case that is more or less accurate. There are however a bunch of exceptions in the extreme case. Rescue services do have a point where they will decide not to continue. During the Tham Luang cave rescue (the thai football boy
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by belorn 3y ago
Running is a very high injury rate sport. Depending on what study you look at, novice runners has an accident rate of around 3.3 (that requires medical attention) per 100h of running. It is not without its own risk. Lower risk than climbing
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by belorn 3y ago
A generalization that I often hear for open water diving is that the drive to a dive place is more dangerous than diving itself, at least considering the time spent on the highway compared to the much shorter duration that is the dive. That
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by belorn 3y ago
Yes, that is what they do with steel and aluminum cylinders. After over pressuring them you measure how much the metal flex, and that way you get an indication of how much fatigue and thus risk there is with that cylinders. I am unsure if t
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by belorn 3y ago
There is a relative recent trend by fire fighters to replace old steel/aluminum cylinders with breathing gas to cylinders made out of carbon (300 bar). They are also used under water in diving. The intend benefit is the reduced weight,
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by belorn 3y ago
It is one thing to do it in person and an other to see it on a screen. As a diver I can fully understand why they want to go down there, for the same reason astronauts want to visit space instead of just sending up a satellite with a video
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by belorn 3y ago
There are actually three sister ships to the Vasa. One of those called the Apple and was discovered a few ago outside Stockholm. They are very similar to Vasa but are built slightly smaller in height and about a foot greater in width. The A
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by belorn 3y ago
It not about how smart future people will be, or how we can eliminate every danger possible for future man. It is that we even today we do not reference old documents to figure out what is safe and was is not. As an example, humanity has do
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by belorn 3y ago
I find the argument that they will need to speak Finish to be boring. Why should they in hundreds to thousands of years need to read an ancient document to figure out whats below the ground. It is not a realistic problem.
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by belorn 3y ago
You can not just go around and develop land today. First you need to take a survey, soil samples, water quality control, and then during digging and construction there are all kind of different dangerous. Most countries in EU still have a b
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by belorn 3y ago
Mining is not exactly a natural process. We can't dilute the toxic byproducts and putting them back where we got them, since that would require rebuilding the mountain. In cases of open mines, all that is left is a lake size hole where

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